Something Sacred This Way Comes
The tyranny of religion
Has called up wars, which we can do, anyway
On our own, thank you very much
Has forestalled advances in astronomy and
Hygiene (Christians took cold baths because
Muslim took hot ones)
Has decided what we read
And how to think,
Making translation and the Reformation
Dangerous
The problem is not Catholic
Any denomination
Or a group formed last night
Becomes an orthodoxy
And so finds a way to rust thought over
Given time, it always happens
The bigger problem should be keeping
God in a box
God might be in there
But I think we measure better when we witness
God everywhere
In the pit or in the sky
Or on our middle Earth between
God has created old
And re-creates in everything that’s new
We give God shelf life
We feared
The smells inside the tomb
From death and execution
So we, as they, thought
But God was fresh that day, because there’s
Nothing newer, once first made,
Than resurrection
This is for Christians, though the problem
Lay on each one’s lintel
God is ancient; God is new
We should know this when we breathe
To give ourselves green opportunities
Not to reinvent the world each day
Until the day it’s called for
But revel in the many cells that rise up in
Creation overnight
Morning has broken
Midnight, too
Ancient of days
Makes new,
Dropped on the horizon
Folded into hills
Pressed over the plains
And pushed into water
Orthodoxy isn’t bad
But don’t forget
That in a favorite story
The Tin Man needs anointing,
Which is ongoing
Join me for church today
(it’s happening somewhere)
Maybe we’ll remember that we’re old
And also facing something delightfully unknown
C L Couch
Rennett Stowe from USA – Saint Francis of Assisi, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26302833
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